So I am trying to get PyDev working on my eclipse. I am running eclipse version 4.5.2. I am trying to install PyDev version 5.1.2.
I have looked all over multiple forums just like this and I have tried doing everything that people have been saying to try. The problem I am encountering, is that when I install PyDev, it seems to work, but then I can't find it anywhere in preferences, meaning I cant use PyDev. It still says it is installed, under the installed category of the eclipse market place.
I think the problem has something to do with what version of java running. In my java installed JREs it says I have both java 8 jdk and jre7. The default is set to jdk8. I understand that the version of java I need to run this version of pydev is java 8, so I should be fine with that. But then I have seen others post to go to help>about>installation details> configuration. And then when I do that it says:
-vm C:/Program Files/Java/jre7/bin\server\jvm.dll
which I assume to mean that it is using jre7.... which I dont understand how. I feel like this is the main problem with what I am experiencing, but I dont know for sure, and if it is the problem, I dont know how to fix it. Thank you in advance for the help.
When I edited the eclipse.ini file, this is what it looks like:
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.100.v20110502
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.2.0.v20110502.jar
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jre8\lib\ext
-vmargs
-Xms256m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-XX:PermSize=64m
